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TIL the longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched (9 letters)

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d8ABd TIL that the creator of the popular board game "Guess Who?" was a classmate of Anne Frank
rN6lx TIL during Apollo 11 NASA suspected that the pressure from the exhaust of the LM engine being reflected by the lunar surface might make it explode, and Neil Armstrong was meant to shut it down as soon as the contact light went off, but he forgot.
e0Kp4 TIL of William Harvey Carney. Despite being shot in the face, shoulders, arms, and legs during battle, he never let the flag touch the ground. Saying, "Boys, I only did my duty; the old flag never touched the ground!"
VBNED TIL more than 40 camels were disqualified from a Saudi beauty contest after being found to have received Botox injections to enhance their looks in 2021
Lkl9Z TIL that Jimmy Carter's siblings and father all died of Pancreatic Cancer, with all of his siblings dying within 7 years of one another.